Re: [Paddlewise] email address harvesting

> From: Merlin Emrys <memrys_at_telecomreseller.com>

> At 03:42 PM 3/6/2002 Kirk Olsen wrote:
>
> >My disagreement with the layout of the qajaqusa site is the email 
> >addresses of those
> >posting are accessable  - leaving them fodder for spammable email address 
> >harvesting scum.
> 
> It is entirely possible to encode these email addresses using 
> javascript.  They will work correctly, but will be unharvestable.  I do 
> this at my own website, and for all those I design and/or maintain.
> 
> Visit http://www.hivelogic.com/safeaddress/ for more info.


This is definitely preferable but at this point, they don't do that
and I think a lot of folks are not aware that their email addresses
*are* available for harvesting from the website by spammers.  This is
why PaddleWise doesn't include email addresses on the website in
connection to postings (unless a poster has given the ok to include
his/her email address).  Also, many folks include email addresses
within their messages/replies and not all javascripts catch those. 

jackie (who hates spam more than hominy)
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